Brian Prince

When the K-1 aerospace vehicle finally takes flight, it will be running software from UGS, a leading provider of product lifecycle management software and services. Final construction of the orbital launch vehicle is being built by a team of contractors headed by Rocketplane Kistler. The company will utilize UGS NX software, a digital product development […]

During the past several years, investment company Thoma Cressey Equity Partners has made its presence felt in the software world, and 2006 was no exception. In just the last few months, the company acquired and merged Vision Solutions International and iTera. Then, Thoma Cressey entered into a recapitalization agreement with Sirius Computer Solutions. All totaled, […]

Customers of the Skype Internet telephone service will have a new search feature, courtesy of the Jyve add-on for Skype 3.0. Jyve, described by its creators as a live “Ask” engine, is a featured “Extra” for Skype users, Jyve officials said. With Jyve, users can connect with people around the world via the Internet to […]

McAfee announced Dec. 19 that its McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus safety tool now supports Firefox, AOL Instant Messenger and AOL Mail. SiteAdvisor Plus actively shields consumers computers from dangerous Web sites encountered when browsing, searching, instant messaging or e-mailing, said officials at the Santa Clara, Calif., company. The new Protected Mode feature prevents consumers from browsing […]

Opera Software announced Dec. 18 the introduction of real-time fraud protection for its Web browser Opera 9.1. The Fraud Protection tool includes technology from GeoTrust, a digital certificate provider, and PhishTank, a collaborative clearinghouse for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Fraud Protection extends the original anti-phishing capability in Opera, company officials said. […]

Actuate announced Dec. 18 that Actuate 9 SP1, with its new support for native Microsoft PowerPoint, now allows users to choose from the complete range of Microsoft Office formats for viewing and presenting information. Actuate 9 SP1, which is scheduled to be available in December, offers the features from business intelligence applications by giving users […]

Never in his wildest dreams did Jim Bell imagine he would help take pictures of Mars. But in 2004, he did exactly that when he led the photography team for NASAs mobile robot missions to Mars. Now some of the pictures snapped by the two robot rovers named Spirit and Opportunity can be viewed in […]

A recent study by JupiterResearch predicts that 82 percent of small businesses will be using the Internet to do business by 2011. “The Internet is an extremely important medium to market to [small businesses],” said Sonal Gandhi, an analyst at JupiterResearch and the lead author of the report. The study predicts only a modest increase […]

Elay Cohen remembers when many people thought sales representatives would never use a partner relationship management application. These days, the senior director of the PRM Division at Salesforce.com happily reports those naysayers were largely wrong. As of Oct. 31, Salesforce.com, a San Francisco-based provider of CRM (customer relationship management) applications, managed customer information for 27,100 […]

Boeing officials confirmed that a laptop containing the personal data of some 382,000 current and former employees was stolen from a former employees car in the first week of December. Officials of the Seattle-based company declined to say exactly when or where the theft occurred, but stated that the data stored on the laptop contained […]